Updating to WM6 ROMs on Vista

[jniemeyer]

Hey All-

I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. I am having problems updating to any of the WM6 ROMs out there (up here). One of a few things is happening:

1) Either RUU crashes just after it successfully sends my PDA in to bootloader mode, or
2) RUU is able to stay up, but for some reason, does not like the update file:
I either get an error: "This NBF file cannot be used for your PDA Phone. Please get a newer NBF file.", or
it suggests the nbf file is "corrupted", I think indicating the RUU util I am running is out of synch with what the PDA is expecting.

I'm using a T-Mobile MDA (Vario?) and Vista.

I've tried all of the solutions I have been able to find:
* changing the driver to HTC USB Sync so that it can "reconnect" once in bootloader
* various flavors of the update utility to get around the crash, which do not let me upgrade to the ROM of choice!
* hard reset of the device
* I even tried pulling down one of the ROM upgrades from the T-Mobile dowloads site and dropping that in with a WM6 ROM nbf file. That was a huge flop.

I know people have done this! I've seen it over and over again. So what in the world stupid thing am I doing to not make this work?

Thanks.
Joel Niemeyer
Seattle

[vlodeck]

RUU doesnt work on Vista. Use shelltool.

[jniemeyer]

Thanks for the advice. I'm sure it was good advice, but I am three hours in to it running now, and I don't have a good feeling about it. :) I think it says it would take at least 15 minutes. Not 180! Ugh, now I wonder what I should do?

Joel

[chaos36]

Hey All-


* changing the driver to HTC USB Sync so that it can "reconnect" once in bootloader


How do you do that? Thank you because when i try to downgrade my ROM or w/e so that i can unlock it when i gots to bootloader the fred green blue thingy it doesnt reconnect to active sync and maybe thats my probelm...=[

[jniemeyer]

chaos, just look around for the RUU with Vista instructions- they are everywhere!

[4irm]

hey mate,

just follow this instructions http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=252977 to falsh every official ROM under MS Vista. Surely, when it comes to WM6 you gotta use the Shelltool.

regards
irm

[BA_Flash_GOD]

My question is why don't people just dual boot vista with xp or 2000/etc...that would solve a lot of issues about the problems with vista.. just boot to xp..

I figure if you have the $Funds$ to spend on a $250+ phone you could shell out $50 for a 150gb 16mb cache HDD for your pc and dual/tri/quad/etc... sheeet son i've been doing this for years with linux/m$/mac.

Gotta face it, some software just runs better on one OS over another. peace out.

[ANTC]

can someone confirm shell tool work

[SiLeNtKiLLa]

can someone confirm shell tool work

I tried it, took like 6 minutes then it was completed, knowingly it wasnt flashed right, but did the hard reset on the phone and was stuck at the SPL screen, so just loaded up VMWare to reflash.

[ND4SPD]

I flashed one of the WM6 ROMs using my Vista Ultimate computer. One of the main parts in making the thing work is remembering to put your computer in bootloader before doing it. On post #7 in the MoDaCo thread, it says this.

Once more, here is the link: http://www.modaco.com/RUU-on-Vista-It-can-be-done-the-ultimate-guide-t252977.html

[ANTC]

so your saying witht hat tut you flash a custom rom??

[ND4SPD]

Yes I was able to. I don't remember which, but I think i was Core 2.0

[jniemeyer]

Yeah, I was able to use shelltool to make this happen. Thanks for the feedback, folks. Only hang up was that it had appeared to have seized up (was seemingly stuck before the "End" portion). I waited for like 3 hours before I finally threw up my hands and hard reset the unit. Low and behold my wizard booted up in to the new ROM and I have been good to do since!